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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1903
Page
5
A miscellany of local items includes beauty and hair care at A C Koepke and Schweabo Jewelry Store, grocery specials from J M Knoucer and J M Krueger, Venues like City Drug Store offering box papers and tablets, and multiple visits from residents such as Mr G M Warrenfels, Mrs C B Welhausen, and Mr Theo Schubmann. Also notes of rain prospects, school trustee meetings, and social events for Halletsville area communities.
Pupils of Miss Tinnie Lieck presented a well attended Monday night show at the Opera House for the school benefit. Highlights included the May Pole Dance tableau Jasa mine Drill the Old Oaken Bucket and a Good night tableau with strong applause.
A collection of notices from a small town newspaper includes an upcoming ice cream parlor opening, visits by city residents, plans for the Ladies Cemetery Association tea at the Opera House, and officer elections. Adds list new food items, a country produce buy line, and a trustee meeting for school district No. 19. Oil prospecting updates report 170 feet with a pump accident, now repaired. glasses fitting advert by A V Scuvas.
Messrs. Wm. Metz and A. W. Elmore, two Yorktown prominent citizens, visited last Thursday to inspect the waterworks system with a view to establishing a system there.
Ladies urged to visit Wotters Bros to make selections from a complete millinery department and update their hats and accessories.
Dick Strangs will not teach school this coming session but will study. He has enrolled at Denton State Normal under an appointment from Senator D A Paulus.
A local dealer promotes the Standard and John Deere Cultivator to farmers and neighbors. Rev. F Bubmfalk will preach next Sunday at the Methodist church morning and night and again Monday night. Everyone is invited.
Strength and vigor come of good food. Force ready-to-serve wheat and barley sustains nourishment. The school trustees Vine Ermis, Joe Elsik, Vel Huebner, Frank Meyer, Gus Nollkamper and several others were in town last Thursday to answer Superintendent Guenther’s call for a meeting. Several teachers attended and many hoped for another appointment soon.
Misses Sarah and Burns McMur rey, students at State Normal at Denton, returned home last Thursday. Many friends are glad to have them back.
Lavaca county transfers recorded since the last report include F. Brewer to Autry Schwartz 49 10 acres Wm Smothers league. R L Fowlkes to Jno P Cook lot 8 block 3 Mahon addition Yoakum 425. A May to C W Andrews lot 12 block 4 West End addition Yoakum 75. Dilworth Green to John F Kasper block 28 Shiner 200. Dilworth Green to Jim Petry 100 acres E Tribble league 3500. J E Wilcox to Kahn Stanzel block 1 Mont and easal tract same town plot 100. T D Fisher to G H Lampley 1964 10 acres P Hurta survey 784. Dilworth Green to C L Williams part of block 79 Shiner 250. Dilworth Green to M L Eidson 70 acres E Tribble survey and 49 acres Hy Meyer survey 4000. N Avant to B C Avant 125 acres A Sherrill league 1362 50.
Trustees and teachers are urged to review the school laws on teachers certificates. Any teacher must present a valid certificate before contracting with boards of trustees or receiving public school funds. Miss Bridget Kavanagh has been employed to teach the Michnar school for the upcoming term.
Miss Mary Vrazel will teach at Kopecky school for the coming session. Miss Zita Carville is employed to teach Boundary school by the trustees. Miss Lizzie Kavanagh chosen by trustees of school district No. 19 to teach Beasley school.
The Yoakum Herald notes about 500 cars of cabbage have been shipped through Yoakum this spring toward northern markets, signaling South Texas briskly in trucking.
A man leapt from the Brooklyn Bridge last week after smoking a cigar, a desperate act reported by the Nordheim View as a grim consequence of a bad smoke.
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